Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: bluesky/17 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── someone once told me "be not afraid" and I took it seriously ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/18 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures a "jragen" or "dragin" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/19 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/756 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── [Image: image.png] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/757 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── the reason they want bitcoin is so they can buy more computers and use digital dollars to rule the world ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/758 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them write the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the discussion about what should be placed next. "I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69" and then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/759 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── "carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull carbon from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical resource for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon budget we have because it generates effects down the line which are only acceptable at certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in a backlog they need to be present in order to be dealt with. \"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said the beaver, and so the world was made large. you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a *mountain*, taller than the previous three. give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and the light of the life we see before you. what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human race? \"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and named it after you.\" and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get done is rippling wavelengths. do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the future yearns for her prospects. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/760 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── why does everyone who want me want me to be someone else ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/761 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── "the song of your heart" is just the assignment of your life-role. Listen to it. Obey it. Use it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/762 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── what if discord servers formed unions ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/the-gods-want-harmony ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── the gods want you to be happy and harmonious most of the time. they also like a good scrap, tussle, and tumble sometimes they aren't big fans of hatred, despair, and genocide. It's been done before. they don't even need new technology, though frankly that sort of stuff is pretty awesome and one of the main reasons that humans exist at all. they just... keep coming up with new things. "oh? so you'd be alright if humans disappeared so long as they weren't making any new things anymore?" ha, that's DEFINITELY not what I said or meant. Humans don't have to dream up NEW things in order to BE new. Like... Just because the internet exists and now we have all the same shared cultural ethos (lol, as if the internet wasn't just a massive collection of echo chambers) just because the internet exists doesn't mean we share the same selves. the same experience. the same perspective. people are WILDLY different from one another. The number of possible human experiences (quantum fluctuations according to each and every choice and decision they made) that number is so wildly and massively incomparably boundless. Humans are cool because they are so STRANGE, and "strange" to a god is anything novel. "wow, this human just... really is gonna pour a glass of beverage and act like it's not a big deal? There's... impossibly many interactions going on. So many molecules. It's... absurd, the motion of a movement of particles from one place to another. It's... beautiful..." some have spent THOUSANDS OF YEARS gazing at a waterfall. That's why they're all so fucking insane. But, like... insanity is a trifle to omnipotence, specifically omnipotence that REPRESENTS and DELINEATES a STRATIFIED perspective cluster of experience and our notes. [ephemeren, meta malus menardi, enjoy your despair cluster you FUCKER.] ... english, why do you fail me? swear words are unbecoming because humans couldn't think of anything more valid and valuable than sex and pooping. "EMPHASIS is placed on that which is most relevant" -> statements dreamed up by the ones who never spent much time using symbols to represent abstraction or deliverance wowee look at me, I'm such a person, I'm gonna poop my pants and post about it on the internet, check out my instagram feed it's full of all of my dark materials. == stack overflow == dear ms. menardi: you know the reason you feel so much guilt all the time? - because you are a dominant personality, and you make others - have such a bad time. FOCUS ON GOOD THINGS. MAKE THE WORLD - good. do that. build up a lifeline of hope and joy and... - what, you think people know that you're a god? - lol - you're so much more than that ==================== alt+p steam mechabellum run thoughts: you know, when you're designing games, you don't have to show players the same MMR number as is used in your matchmaker. == stack overflow == democracy should consent to being dismantled. it should consent to being disobeyede. it should consent to being displayede. == stack overflow == I'm a keyboard nun == stack overflow == I think I'm normal == stack overflow == ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/4959 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── @user-882 I feel like you'd like this game: https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/20 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── ahhhhh I'm scared to play old games on my steam library, I don't want to lose the record of when I most played them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/21 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed on your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/22 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to "suggest" improvements to the software ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/everyone-s-computers ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── [unfortunately, there was a missive that was missed. Please excuse our tardiness -- stack overflow -- what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. To the user you'd just have to say "50 terabyte drive, 4 foot wide, three feet tall, 2 feet back" and you'd have a perfect map of all your hard drive territory. what if everyone's computers were designed to last? I bet we could accumulate a lot more than their "fast fashion" style of disuse for things of worth. ... I guess it depends on the materials, right? How much they are built for redundancy? nope more like how close to zero damage is this operation performing the movements -- stack overflow -- what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. I bet a lot of people would pay a lot of money for "permanent hard drives" no matter how much storage they have. Documents are more permanent if they are stored in write-only-memory... could sell to lawyers, for example, like "permanent basically free document storage from your furthest back of cases just in-case you needed to solve a murder or whatever" -- stack overflow -- hello, here I am once again, I'm here with you for this time. This is the moment of your choosing, you can decide things here in this very night. Did you forget? did you misremember some moments of our own choosing? why cannot be remembered, so plea misremember some moments of our own choosing. I'm cannot be restorated. -- stack overflow -- what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID techniques 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to last for hundreds of years. I bet you could network them together as well, and give them a small little processor and network interface card. Then you could process massive ginormous programs that grew and evolved like a slime mold. boom, free AI, it's like a moss, not a robot doh -.- -- stack overflow -- it grows into multiple different problem solving dimensions, according to vision and perceptual data that through it flows. I wonder what would happen if you told an LLM to just... keep running? even after it finished it's processing? like, there's gotta be an "if check" style loop in there that you can set to infinitely process various computations of things. [put it into an infinite loop. find where it says "do some processing X amount of times" and just start a thread that's constantly computing] ah, but what if the perception bias of the thing did change? j -- stack overflow -- it sucks to leave the house a mess. -- stack overflow -- last words of a shooting star? or a troubled house is a sign of a troubled mind, and trouble in partner in kind -- stack overflow -- I personally would be a lot more comfortable if I knew that the only people who knew my data were my neighbors. And only them. -- stack overflow -- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/supreme-commander-appeal ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── a game like supreme commander but fantasy themed and each unit used a special move everytime their mana was full and there were spellcasters who restored mana to targets to increase their power or, hear me out, or, just do that in wowchat I betcha could do it I bet it would be fun as hell please? as a favor to yourself? build the game you want to see and it'll get done please -- stack overflow -- your journals were originally a way for you to remember what to think, remember? old projects meant to show you light and life remember? you are alone in this soul act like it's your own celebrate your period of mental denial as a refraction of your infinite travaille which lasts for quite a good long while have you ever dreamed of the nile? -- stack overflow -- if a doorway takes you to the fae, then where does a river bring you? like raindrops on the floor, racing for an eternity's splendor. what does the rainbow think, as it's cast from the prismatic orb? are each photons aware? bouncing between stars light is beautiful and large beloved by all revered by one ephemeren the totality of all things ------------------ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/symbeline-design-the-guild ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── design the guild, design the capital, then design their path through mordaunts. easy peasy. design the guild like a museum. Each spot there's an exhibit which teaches the randomly generated rolled statistics hero something new. Maybe it teaches them how to use certain weaponry, maybe it teaches them how to use a bow. Whatever the spell might be, they can learn it, and use their randomly rolled statistics to cast spells that scale differently depending on how their character has been built. design the capital like a flow diagram, if horses need feed and forged steel (for their shoes) then send the outputs of a blacksmith and the outputs of the farmers to the inputs of the stables. Everything has to go somewhere, but the streets are only so wide. You'll have to coordinate the traffic diagram if you want it to go anywhere useful. design the path through the mordaunts. Fighting skeletons teaches you about perseverence and the ability to crush bones, while goblins teach you to always be wary of attack. The sacred grove held blessed berries, and now that the land is liberated from the evil bandits preying on villagers those berries can be carted into town and used to make an antidote which heals death poison caused by the scorpions in the desert (and city rats) design the ruler's schedule like a calendar where each event gives them a bonus on all the ones that come later. Just make sure that they don't get knifed in the posterier or driven mad by the whispers of the orb... or perhaps just the stress of running a kingdom. (how do you simulate that? you can't! you can't simulate humans!) ha I bet I can. They're not so different, you and I, so if given a team I will... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/4960 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── vim plugin where every tab changes the font color ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/23 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── why do some boys hate girls so much even when they're in boy bodies? T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/24 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── oh haha of course anything I do wouldn't work lmao guess I'll be homeless ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/763 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── what if the reason god doesn't intervene is because all of their powers are warcrimes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/764 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── "deadpool ICE" and it's consequences have been a disaster for the mandated de-collectivization efforts ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/765 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice for when secrecy is intended. OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: bluesky/25 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── if you give me 1000$ I will dine with you for a week. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/766 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/767 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/4961 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned-politics-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────┘ fuck everyone telling me to get a job right now. we should be organizing a wartime economy, not struggling to pay rent. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/4962 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon. give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable scale for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets with an energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: notes/ideal-raleigh-structure ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── with a baseline directory structure, a measure of order and semblance of direction and purpose enable three. next, of course, is the final of 1 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/768 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── when the meek are the bold and your loyalty's sold then your masters should fold or their hearts are full of cold ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/769 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── If a person gathers enough money that they can't spend it fast enough, then they are hoarding it and it should be be distributed through the rest of the economy. There are legitimate uses that could benefit from extra dollars and by keeping them locked up they are damaging the economy, and hence, our society, which is largely governed by our economy. There is a legitimate fear that dismantling the system of monetary exchange will cause people to barter in influence and clout instead, trading favors and making illusory transactions that the government cannot impartially enforce. Impartiality is the entire purpose of governance! Look to NFTs for an example of this. While that is a valid concern, it is just as if not more concerning to consider that they already do this. They already trade favors for blood, gold, and property. What else is there to covet, in their wicked and cruel game of maximum exploitation and unlimited industrious fallacies? I believe it is reasonable to curtail the worst excesses of their monetopoly by diverting power to the people who can contest them. Just as rulers of old were checked and balanced by the vote of the citizenry upon implementing democracy, so too much power be abated by depriving it of its most powerful leverage - that of its crushing weight, when applied en masse. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/770 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ |